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CommentCan greater transparency expose future care failures?
The government sees openness as key to preventing failures
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CommentThe NHS cannot ignore DH underspends
The NHS must decide what has to go unspent if providers are to spend their surpluses
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Readers' letters − 24 January 2013
This week’s letters include a call for a change in attitudes to mental health and responses to HSJ’s exclusive interview with Sir David Nicholson, as well as making the case for the use of nutritional supplements in care homes
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CommentMichael White: how former ministers keep busy
Paul Burstow wants the government to do more for carers
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CommentThe dangers of marketisation
Competition will be a disaster for the NHS’s patients, finances and ethics
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Shifting care closer to home: slogan or solution?
We must reimagine the wider health and social care system
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CommentNew thinking about the future of maternity care
Old assumptions are stopping maternity services from improving
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Readers' letters - 17 January 2013
A tribute to Alasdair Liddell, who died on 31 December 2012, aged 63
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CommentSize vs quality? Examining hospital mergers
Reviewing the evidence into the effectiveness of mergers
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CommentHealth and health services: the next 20 years
The winning Finnamore F20 essay on the future of healthcare
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CommentYour Humble Servant: family knows best
“Everything is essential, dynamic and the answer, until it is replaced”
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CommentOFT may block basket case trust moves
If there are flaws in the OFT’s arguments, will the DH be prepared to say so?
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CommentHunt's head is in the Risk Clouds
The health secretary has a novel way of dealing with his daily crises
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CommentFree from the dead hand of Connecting for Health
“We need to link the technology to see the benefits people want”
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CommentRegulating managers is the wrong response to Mid Staffs
Poor managers are a symptom of a poorly governed system
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CommentClinical research can improve health and wealth
Research projects can improve hospitals’ finances and treatment
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CommentCommunity care should be the NHS's first option
Community FTs are crucial to the mandate’s aspirations
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CommentCommissioning board makes its move
Is the board’s rejection of the CCG funding formula a declaration of independence?
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CommentMichael White: escalation in healthcare's culture wars
The Francis inquiry has riled the public and private sectors
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CommentThe profitable prize behind pension reform
Radical changes to pensions enable the government’s goal for the NHS